[curatorial.net] Spacex announcement: Peter J. Evans performance at CCANW, 14 & 15 July

[Nicola Hood]

PETER J. EVANS  
 
PERFORMANCE: Our understanding of things
 
CCANW, Haldon Forest Park, Exeter
Saturday 14 & Sunday 15 July 11am ­ 5pm, free
 
To mark the end of his solo exhibition 'Feedbacker' at SPACEX, Peter J.
Evans will perform a new work titled 'Our understanding of things' in Haldon
Forest Park. The performance focuses on the process of decay, the gradual
turning into dust, the disappearance of a solid form, but the continuation
of energy beyond that point. A piece of timber will be planed down until
nothing remains other than the shavings on the floor. Being the same size as
the artist the timber will carry associations beyond its own, becoming a
metaphor for the loss everything goes through, slowly over time losing forms
and meanings, but taking on new shapes and ideas. This altering of form will
be visible in each new layer of wood revealed and each shaving on the floor
before they are placed on a small fire - it¹s vapours becoming lost in the
air.  

For details about the performance contact Mandy Barber, Exhibitions &
Marketing Co-ordinator, tel: ++44 (0)1392 431786,
email: mandy at spacex.co.uk or visit www.spacex.org.uk and www.ccanw.co.uk for
more information. 
 
Peter J. Evans¹ work has been presented in exhibitions in the UK and
internationally. He has recently shown at the Pickled Arts Centre - Beijing,
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art - Gateshead, Kiasma - Helsinki and at The
Drawing Room - London. Peter J. Evans is represented by Seventeen, London &
Workplace Gallery, Gateshead.